Want To Part At Podcast Expo? August 17th, 2007 by podcastpickle
Are you planning on going to the Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California? If the answer is yes, you may want to take a look the new wiki of parties. That's right Tim Bourquin has set up a calendar wiki, just for the parties that are happening at the event. The calendar wiki is located at http://newmediaexpo.pbwiki.com/ . At the moment there are not any events posted, but give it time. I am sure there will plenty to choose from in the very near future.
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Podcasting and on-demand delivery could "transform" the BBC April 18th, 2007 by Steven Lewis
There have been nearly 4m downloads of BBC video podcasts since the corporation began a trial in August. Separately, the BBC’s has finished a trial of its iPlayer. The player allows UK-based viewers to catch up for free on TV programs aired in the previous seven days. The BBC has offered a similar service to radio listeners for years.The iPlayer could eventually be the platform for over 10% of BBC television viewing, according to Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of new media & technology. Mr Highfield was giving a keynote entitled “Distribute or Die” to the MipTV conference in Cannes.
The iPlayer is expected to be released at the end of the year. The BBC said plans to roll it out first for Windows machine then expand it for cable TV and other platforms such as Apple Macs, media centre PCs and smart handheld devices, such as mobiles or PDAs.
A new trial, involving on-demand delivery of the BBC’s archive has also been announced. The trial will involve 20,000 viewers and start next month.
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Record companies agree to podcasting deal April 2nd, 2007 by Dismay
A deal has been struck between record companies and UK's commercial radio allowing music clips to be played in podcasts.
The Times reports, "Now stations such as Capital 95.8, Heart and Magic FM can include up to 30 seconds of music tracks from leading recording artists in podcasts, in a move that the industry hopes will create a new trend of music podcast downloads among listeners."
Nick Piggott, digital content manager for GCap Media, which owns Capital 95.8, said: “Radio stations have, until now, been fairly limited. Virtually all podcasting in the UK has been speech-based, which obviously does not suit music-based stations. This agreement will help podcasts to become more mainstream by increasing their appeal to music listeners.”
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Podcasters Across Borders 2007 March 19th, 2007 by Charles Cadenhead
Registration for the Podcasters Across Borders 2007 has now opened. The conference will take place June 22nd through the 24th. Early registration is $75 CDN and ends April 30th. Regular registration is $100 CDN and ends June 22nd. Podcasters Across Borders started in 2006 and is the first Canadian podcasting conference. This year it will be held in the Kingston Ontario. The conference organizers have stated that registration will be capped at 160 people.
There will be three conference tracks: A one day corporate podcasting event, a podcamp and a traditional conference track. Some of the sessions titles include: Ethics, Morals and Social Responsibilities in Podcasting; The Art of Storytelling; and Getting your Podcast seen - as well as heard.
Podcasters Across Borders will offer attendees the unique chance to network with international podcasters and respected community leaders.
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Zune Gains Marketshare March 2nd, 2007 by Paul Colligan
The NPD group released numbers for January's MP3 (hard drive based) player sales. Microsoft's Zune player was at #2 with a 9.9% market share. Although NPD's scope doesn't include sales in arenas such as Apple Stores and Costcos, the impact on the marketplace of the Zune player can't be denied.
Zune marketing recomends "Passing On" Podcast content, but to this point offers no Podcatching element in the Zune hardware or Windows (only) syncing software. Microsoft recently announced a Zune firmware upgrade for later this month but notes that the upgrade includes no Podcast features.
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McAfee, Inc. Avert Labs Launches the 'AudioParasitics' March 2nd, 2007 by Dismay
McAfee, Inc. announced on March 1, that they will be providing a podcast to discuss security issues. According to a press release, the podcast, AudioParasitics, will be available bimonthly and is co-hosted by David Marcus, security research and communications manager, and Jim Walter, field research engineer, for McAfee Avert Labs.
"McAfee AudioParasitics includes highly-caffeinated commentary and heated arguments on the tenets and pillars of the security industry," said Marcus. "One show may discuss disclosure, another day zero-day trends - the goal is to create an engaging and informative communications mechanism to help security professionals take a close look at the issues and trends that drive our industry."
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Ask a Ninja advertising deal over-reported? January 31st, 2007 by Steven Lewis
When Ask a Ninja reported a deal with Federated Media to sell advertising in the video podcast, it was quickly reported by NewTeeVee that the deal was worth "$300,000 upfront along with 60 percent of ad revenue".
NewTeeVee reports in an update to its original post that John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media, has emailed them denying that payments have been made. Nonetheless, NewTeeVee claims a source who maintains that money has been advanced to the Ninja crew to allow them to "focus on creating new episodes" and that the deal is worth "at least $300,000 a year".
There is no comment on the Federated Media blog.
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Mass(achusetts) Media January 28th, 2007 by Laurence Simon
The new Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, is podcasting.
According to WHDH, Governor Patrick stated that the campaign showed how important it was to have direct communications with the people.
Unlike other so-called "podcasts" by celebrities or politicians, where a sound file is posted for click-to-download, this appears to be a true podcast with an RSS feed.
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Rocketboom earns $247,000 in 2006 January 24th, 2007 by Steven Lewis
Rocketboom, a popular "quirky" video podcast about technology, reported earnings last year of USD247,412.
Andrew Baron, owner of Rocketboom, says in his blog, "$210k of that was in advertising and licensing and the rest was mostly from consulting and merchandising."
He goes on to say, "I realize its unusual to report this kind of information and I may not have the luxury of doing so in the future (and may not even want to myself) but I'm hoping to emphasize the point while I can - a point that I have often tried to make - which is that you can do this."
Thanks to Paul Colligan for the pointer
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Kiptronic raises $4 million January 23rd, 2007 by Steven Lewis
Podcasting advertising network Kiptronic has raised $4 million in Series A funding. By the end of last year the network was placing ads in 47 million downloadable files from 3,000 podcast producers.
Via podCast411 Blog
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